As Crocodile finished speaking, his hand slashed downwards.
In an instant, several sand blades attacked Luffy and his crew.
(#°Д°)!
Everyone was startled by the incoming sand blades and scattered in all directions.
However, after passing them, Sand Blade slashed at the wall behind them, instantly splitting the entire wall in two.
Because this place is in the middle of a huge pool, once the wall cracked, countless streams of water rushed in.
"Hahaha... you'll all die here!"
Crocodile laughed loudly, then his body turned into a cloud of sand and flew towards the exit, disappearing from everyone's sight in no time.
"Run!!!"
After a period of time~
"Cough cough!"
"That was close! I almost drowned!" Luffy said, turning over in shock.
Just now, because Crocodile's sand blades destroyed several walls at the same time, the water rushed in at an incredible speed, and soon filled the entire room.
As Devil Fruit User, he was naturally rendered useless in this situation.
If Zoro hadn't saved him, he might have been dead. After resting for a bit, Luffy couldn't help but curse:
"That bastard Crocodile!"
What? You miss me that much?
However, the very next second after he finished speaking, a voice rang out, causing everyone lying on the ground to stand up instantly.
Everyone looked up and saw Crocodile standing on a rooftop, looking down at them. He said in a sinister tone:
"You guys are really lucky to be alive!"
"Heh~ We won't fall until we defeat you!" Luffy said calmly, then closed his eyes.
Gradually, his right fist began to turn pitch black. It was Armament Haki.
" Gum-Gum Pistol!"
Luffy threw a punch directly at Crocodile, but Crocodile easily dodged it with a Luffy.
" Crescent Cutlass!"
(#°Д°)!
Seeing the attack coming towards him, Luffy was startled and quickly used Shave to get away from where he was.
When he saw the attack hit the ground and erode it into sand, he patted his chest in lingering fear.
However, before Luffy could even catch his breath, Crocodile's next attack was already upon them.
" Sables!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a sandstorm swept towards them from Crocodile's direction.
At first, it was only about the size of a palm, but as they got closer, the tornado grew larger and larger, reaching five or six meters high by the time it reached them.
Unable to dodge in time, everyone was swept up by the sandstorm and headed towards the desert.
"Bang!"
"Cough cough! This sand... it's making me feel a bit choked!" Usopp said, kneeling on the sand and coughing a few times.
"Did Crocodile blow us all to this side of the desert?" Sanji stood up and looked at the surrounding desert.
"That's right, because I'm going to use this place as your burial ground!"
" Desert Sunflower!"
Crocodile's familiar voice rang out, causing everyone's hearts to leap into their throats, and at the same time, they felt the sand beneath their feet begin to collapse.
"Get out of here!"
Sanji shouted, but it was too late. The sand beneath their feet turned into quicksand like a whirlpool, pulling them inward relentlessly.
"Ah! What is this?!" Nami shouted as she ran upwards, but even so, her body continued to fall little by little.
"What if we get sucked in? Will we die?" Chopper cried, tears streaming down his face.
"It definitely will!" Usopp was terrified.
"Hahaha..."
Seeing this, Crocodile burst into laughter again.
"You will all become ruins of this desert!" he said, turning his gaze to Vivi.
" Princess Vivi, the Rebel Army is heading towards Alubarna now! What do you think would happen if I went there and used some tricks to make them fight each other?"
Hahaha... Goodbye!
After saying that Crocodile turned around and disappeared into a gust of sand before everyone's eyes.
Crocodile!!!
One day later~
Alabasta, the capital of Alubarna.
King Cobra sat on his throne with a solemn expression.
The Rebel Army has now fully assembled outside the capital and could launch an attack at any moment. Cobra was at a loss for what to do.
Moreover, Crocodile is behind everything, manipulating events and attempting to overthrow the kingdom.
Just then, a guard rushed in from outside.
"King, King!"
"What's wrong? What happened?" Pell asked from the side.
" The Rebel Army leader Koza, requests an audience!"
"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Cobra immediately stood up and hurriedly said, "Let him in quickly!"
Shortly after, a young man with glasses and blond hair walked in from outside.
His gaze remained fixed on Cobra throughout the journey, never leaving her. He stopped when he was about ten meters away from Cobra.
Staring at Cobra, he said, "King, now that things have come to this, I want to ask you one last time, why did you do this?"
Cobra shook his head and said, "I've never done that before, and I didn't understand how it happened before, but now I do! Vivi gave it to me; you'll understand everything once you see it!"
" Vivi!" Upon hearing this name, Koza's heart trembled, and Vivi's voice and smile appeared in his mind.
Shaking his head to clear his mind, Koza took the letter Vivi had written from Cobra's hand and opened it to read.
After a long while, a look of shock appeared on Koza's face, and sweat involuntarily rolled down his cheeks.
"This, this is..."
Meanwhile, in a house in Alubarna, senior executives of the Baroque Works, including Crocodile, were gathered.
Crocodile's eyes narrowed slightly, and he tapped the table repeatedly with both hands.
After a long pause, he asked, "Still no news from Mr. 2?"
"No! Boss, ever since you sent him to the Little Garden last time, he's vanished without a trace!" Robin said from the side.
"Is that so!" Crocodile fell silent again, then his eyes turned cold.
"In that case, if he returns, there's no point in him existing. Treat him as a traitor to Baroque Works, and kill him on sight!"
"Yes!" the people below responded in unison.
One of the women, with long, wavy blue hair, asked, "But without Mr. 2's abilities, it's inconvenient for us to impersonate the king and escalate the conflict between the Royal Army and the Rebel Army!"
"There's no need to worry about that. The conflict between the Royal Army and the Rebel Army has long been enormous, and the pain that has accumulated over the years is not so easy to erase."
"Having a few Billions disguise themselves as members of the Royal Army to attack the Rebel Army will have the same effect and won't affect our plans!"
"Your tasks have all been assigned; now let's get to the final touches." With that, Crocodile stood up from his seat.
" The Alabasta Kingdom, today, is destroyed!"